Someone drove over my foot!

[northwind]

My actual foot! In a car! I was so surprised I didn't even do them any damage. Teach me not to be responsible at traffic lights... (I'd decided to take it easy, because in the other lane was a Caterham 7 and I didn't want to get horsed off the line...)

[Ping]

Ow. Heard of this a lot but luckily my feet can't possibly stick out that far... :lol:

;)

Hope there's no damage. :)

[northwind]

Oh yeah, good point. No, none really, a bit sore and bruised but my boots did their job very well. Very nearly dropped it out of surprise, though.

[carelesschucca]

I thought I was unlucky but my god how unlucky are you, you take everything to the next level...

At least if your getting all the bad luck the other people of the world are safe...

[Carsick]

That's happened to me a few times. on and off the bike. Luckily steel toes do their job well.

[northwind]

I thought I was unlucky but my god how unlucky are you, you take everything to the next level...


I think it would be churlish of me to call having your foot run over and not being noticably injured unlucky :)

[philipMac]

Yeah. Some ******* in a taxi in NYC just ran over my foot, and sort of side swiped me.

I too was so suprised by the whole thing, I didnt do anything. Mind you, I was also aware that if I started... I would have become very angry, very quickly. I was wairing Gaerne boots, no steel toes, and I was grand.
Glad to hear you didnt get knocked off or drop it Northy.

[Cronos]

That's happened to me a few times. on and off the bike. Luckily steel toes do their job well.

Steel toe caps on a motorcycle are not the best idea in the world as they have a nasty habit of bending back and chopping off your toes in an accident.

[medwaysv]

Ouch! Perish the thought!

Glad you got off lightly north :D

[Kate]

Yeah, had this happen to me too. Sitting in traffic and this old battered white micra just rolls onto my foot. I knocked on the window, flipped open my lid and asked if he would get off my foot please. He looked kinda terrified but did as he was told.

[keithd]

lucky escape! you coulda broken a metatarsel or summat :shock:

[CoolGirl]

Whatever next?! :shock:

Andy, mate, enough already. I reckon your remaining line of defence against the rest of the world, coincidence, accident, fate, acts of god and circumstance is to not get out of bed in the mornings. :P

[rictus01]

Hummm, left foot, got one of those, doesn't look very original though :shock:

cheers Mark.

[Sid Squid]

Bus parked on my foot once, that hurt.

[Anonymous]

andy what you need is one of those big bubbles that you can live in. protect you from the big bad world. if it wasnt for bad luck you would have nae luck at all.

glad your ok though :lol:

[mysteryjimbo]

My actual foot! In a car!

How did they manage that while you were in a car?!!! :shock:




:lol:

[tomjones2]

A taxi driver once parked on my mates foot when he was trying to pick us up.

He wasent hurt but i think that grounds for no tip, isn't it.

[philipMac]

That's happened to me a few times. on and off the bike. Luckily steel toes do their job well.

Steel toe caps on a motorcycle are not the best idea in the world as they have a nasty habit of bending back and chopping off your toes in an accident.

I am not sure if this is true.
Mythbusters (this american tv show, shown in the UK too?) did a load of tests on it. Basically steel toes are good.
By the time you reach the point that the toe cup things are going to bend and cut you, (which doesnt really happen anyway), had you not been wairing steel toes. your foot is going to be completely mangled and destroyed beyond recognition.
The lads did a fairly solid set of tests on the boots, but they never actually crashed bikes wairing them... so maybe something special can happen in this case.

[SVTONYB]

Andy WTF are you all about :shock:
from now on if anything **** happens to me it will be known as an
ANDY MOMENT :wink:

[rictus01]

That's happened to me a few times. on and off the bike. Luckily steel toes do their job well.

Steel toe caps on a motorcycle are not the best idea in the world as they have a nasty habit of bending back and chopping off your toes in an accident.

I am not sure if this is true.
Mythbusters (this american tv show, shown in the UK too?) did a load of tests on it. Basically steel toes are good.
By the time you reach the point that the toe cup things are going to bend and cut you, (which doesnt really happen anyway), had you not been wairing steel toes. your foot is going to be completely mangled and destroyed beyond recognition.
The lads did a fairly solid set of tests on the boots, but they never actually crashed bikes wairing them... so maybe something special can happen in this case.

Not seen it myself but during my time with Surrey Ambulance it was reported that a biker had to have his boot destroyed to get his foot out as he had a steel toecap dented down, apparently they cut off the sole and then snipped though the tabs holding it on, unfortunately that was the least of his worries :shock:

I had a 32 ton truck run over my foot in motocrss boots, broke all the bones in the lower half, punctured a hole though it and peeled the skin off :shock: , however the metal bar though the sole stopped the foot being totally crushed and they were able to save it :thumbsup: .

so metal does help.

Cheers Mark.

[Mr Toad]

I ran over my own foot once when on a scooter :oops:

[northwind]

lucky escape! you coulda broken a metatarsel or summat :shock:

Luckily I wasn't wearing a football boot :wink:

Steelies can cause strange injuries... A mate of my brother's had a large piece of bulding fall on his left foot right at the toes.. Without the toecaps, he'd have lost all his toes, and the rest of his foot would have been more or less OK... But instead, the steel cut through the boot and baasically spread the impact beyond where it would have gone otherwise, and so he lost the front half of his foot as well. But now he gets shoes on the NHS :)

Thing is though, that's such a freak accident. It'd be like not wearing a crash helment, because of that freak accident you read about once where someone got the chin strap caught on a post and it snapped their neck.

[SVTONYB]

Thing is though, that's such a freak accident. It'd be like not wearing a crash helment, because of that freak accident you read about once where someone got the chin strap caught on a post and it snapped their neck.

Andy knowing your luck you should fasten your strap with velcro :wink:

[dirtydog]

Andy you are bad luck personified!!!! :shock: :shock:

[Ping]

I ran over my own foot once when on a scooter :oops:
ROFL!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: Classic. :)

[Sid Squid]

I ran over my own foot once when on a scooter :oops:
ROFL!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: Classic. :)

My thoughts exactly, but I have to ask:

Simon, how the F*** did you manage that?

[Mr Toad]

:oops:

'twas a long time ago

I'd stopped at traffic lights at a junction (heading South by Kennington tube, the bit where it curves round), and there was a fire engine coming up behind, lights going and all that.
So I manouvered as far over as I could to the right (next to the curved traffic island) to let it go by, and the lights changed, so I thought I'd nip off after it :D
Unfortunately I was in a strange position with my left leg well behind me, and I kind of turned a bit sharp, and my leg got caught sort of under the running board, and I ended up doing a U-turn across both lanes whilst being pulled into a kneeling position on the footboard

Luckily it was late at night and there was no traffic about . . .
. . . or any witnesses (until now) :-dd

:lol:

[Warthog]

hilarious mental image, thank you! :lol:

You could just say its the new cool way to do a tight 180 turn! :D

[Dicky Ticker]

Good God Northy don,t look down to check your oil :lol: or they might run over your head